Pioneers, Coyotes, Tommies garner Kwik Star #SummitSD weekly accolades

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Denver duo of Dakotah Parker and Savanna Berry, South Dakota’s Nick Rounds, and St. Thomas’ Brooke Gothard had been named the newest Summit League Kwik Star Swimming and Diving Peak Performers of the Week, League officers launched Tuesday. Parker and Berry collected the boys’s and girls’s diver awards, respectively, whereas Rounds and Gothard earned the boys’s and girls’s swimmer honors, respectively.

For the boys, Rounds powered the Yotes to a win over the Tommies within the St. Thomas twin by posting first-place finishes in 5 completely different occasions. Denver’s Parker additionally had a stellar week, incomes two NCAA Zone Cuts in a victory over Colorado School of Mines 190-49. The senior gained the 1-meter and 3-meter dives with scores of 325.05 and 336.15, respectively.

Gothard shined within the girls’s 200 medley relay, 50 breast, and 100 IM for the Tommies because the freshman collected the primary weekly award of her profession following the South Dakota Dual. Denver’s Berry was dominant as soon as once more within the twin towards Colorado School of Mines, sweeping each diving occasions with a rating of 279.23 within the 1-meter and 291.38 within the 3-meter. The Lodi, Calif., native’s scores had been sufficient for her first NCAA Zone Cuts of the 12 months in each occasions.

 

MEN’S PEAK SWIMMER OF THE WEEK

Nick Rounds, South Dakota

So. | Free/Back | West Des Moines, Iowa

• Collected first place within the 200 free (1:43.40), 50 fly (22.06), and 200 medley relay with a 50 again cut up time of twenty-two.43 on the St. Thomas twin
• Also notched first place finishes within the 1000 IM relay and 4x50x4 relay
• Collected his fifth profession weekly award

Also nominated: Finn Holdredge (Denver), Ian Leonard (St. Thomas).
 
MEN’S PEAK DIVER OF THE WEEK
Dakotah Parker, Denver

Sr. | Dive | Clearwater, Minn.

• Earned two NCAA Zone Cuts in Denver’s first meet again from the vacation break
• Won the boys’s 1-meter dive vs. Colorado Mines with a rating of 325.05 and the boys’s 3-meter dive with a 336.15
• Collected his first profession weekly award

Also nominated: Julius Krumenacher (St. Thomas), Maddox Mork (South Dakota).

WOMEN’S PEAK SWIMMER OF THE WEEK

Brooke Gothard, St. Thomas

Fr. | Free/IM | Golden, Colo.

• Paced the Tommies of their twin with two particular person wins and a relay win vs. South Dakota
• Won the 50 breast, 100 IM and was a member of the primary place 200 medley relay crew
• Collected her first profession weekly award

Also nominated: Sabrina Rachjaibun (Denver), Emily DiProspero (South Dakota).
 
WOMEN’S PEAK DIVER OF THE WEEK
Savanna Berry, Denver

Jr. | Dive | Lodi, Calif.

• Earned a pair of NCAA Zone Cuts en-route to a sweep of the diving occasion titles in Denver’s first meet again from the vacation break on Friday
• Scored a 279.23 to take the 1-meter title and a 291.38 to earn the 3-meter title
• Collected her fifth profession weekly award

Also nominated: Maya Kelly (St. Thomas), Mady Schmidt (South Dakota).

2025-26 Swimming & Diving Peak Performers of the Week

Oct. 7

MS: Hamish McLellan, Denver

MD: Trip Gregory, Denver

WS: Addisyn Storms, Omaha

WD: Kaitlin Calvery, Denver

 

Oct. 14

MS: David Bosch, South Dakota State

MD: Owen Kipp, Omaha

WS: Gigi Hioki, South Dakota State

WD: Ava Johnson, Omaha

 

Oct. 21

MS: Hamish McLellan, Denver

MD: Colin Breuer, Denver

WS: Ellie Undem, St. Thomas

WD: Savanna Berry, Denver

 

Oct. 28

MS: Jerrin Dale, Southern Indiana

MD: Lane Pollock, Southern Indiana

WS: Samantha Synsvoll, Denver

WD: Savanna Berry, Denver       

 

Nov. 4

MS: Nick Rounds, South Dakota

MD: Nathan Frette, Omaha

WS: Julia Saxman, Denver

WD: Bella Price, Omaha

 

Nov. 18

MS: Brady Wainionpaa, Omaha

MD: N/A

WS: Julia Thomas, Omaha

WD: N/A

 

Nov. 25

MS: Nick Rounds, South Dakota

MD: Maddox Mork, South Dakota

WS: Emily DiProspero, South Dakota

WD: Maya Kelly, St. Thomas

 

Dec. 9

MS: Hamish McLellan, Denver

MD: N/A

WS: Julia Saxman, Denver

WD: N/A

 

Jan. 6

MS: Nick Rounds, South Dakota

MD: Dakotah Parker, Denver

WS: Brooke Gothard, St. Thomas

WD: Savanna Berry, Denver

 

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